7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW
• WHEN YOU ARE A REFUGEE AND GAY
• LUXEMBOURG GAY BARS & CLUBS
• LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PREMIER PRAIS MEXI LGBT+ PROGRS, SE MORE WORK AHEAD
• GAY LUXEMBOURG 2023

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

HistoryHomosexual activy Luxembourg? Homosexual activy Luxembourg is marriage Luxembourg? Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW

” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

WHEN YOU ARE A REFUGEE AND GAY

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020.

LUXEMBOURG GAY BARS & CLUBS

Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERS Acquire Licensg RightsBRUSSELS, June 24 (Rters) - Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told his Hungarian unterpart Viktor Orban on Thursday that Budapt was beg discrimatory and stigmatizg wh s new law banng om schools materials emed to promote homosexualy. Dpe cricism om rights groups and polil opposn Hungary, Orban said on Thursday ahead of talks wh his EU peers Bssels that the new bill, which bans the distributn schools of material seen as promotg homosexualy or genr change, was already, who is an advote of gay rights and sometim travels wh his hband to official state viss, said he would challenge Orban over the ntent law durg their meetg.

"To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people - 's not realisg that beg gay is not a choice, " Bettel said. I am gog to tell him that what he is dog his untry is tolerant and that beg gay is not a choice. "The most difficult thg for me was to accept myself when I realised that I was love wh a person of my sex, was how to say to my parents, how to say to my fay, " he said, strsg that young homosexuals are prone to suici if they fail to embrace who they are, e out and live their liv.

Conflatg homosexualy wh paedophilia or pornography was wrong, as was stigmatizg people, he said, addg tongue--cheek that himself beg gay did not pose any danger to anyone. "Bettel also took a jibe at Orban remdg of Jozsef Szajer, who ed to be a proment voice of Hungary's lg Fisz party the European Parliament and played an stmental role rewrg Hungary's nstutn a more nservative he rigned last December over attendg Bssels a gay sex party, which got bted for vlatg COVID-19 rtrictns and which Szajer tried to pe by clamberg down a gutter before beg ught by the police. LuxembourgFor gays and lbians seekg asylum Europe, the dream of a ee and tolerant Europe is not always a realy.

LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PREMIER PRAIS MEXI LGBT+ PROGRS, SE MORE WORK AHEAD

Ennas Al Sharifi spoke to members of the gay refugee muny and refuge general to share their stori and Ennas Al SharifiGays and lbians suffer threats, persecutn and danger, pecially societi where social norms and relig beliefs ntradict homosexual migrants e om nservative Mlim untri, where homosexualy is taboo. In Syria and Iraq for example, homosexualy is illegal, and the ant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has killed at least 30 gay people those two untri over the past two years, activists is why of the gay refuge who do live Luxembourg foyers, few are open about their sexualy. Therapist told parents he was gayAsylum seeker Mano fled his war-torn home of Syria bee of harassment and tolerance over his sexual orientatn.

GAY LUXEMBOURG 2023

He told them I was gay“When I was 15, before I me to terms wh my inty, my parents spected somethg was 'wrong' wh me and sent me to a therapist.

He told them I was gay.

“Most of them believed—and probably still do—that gay people like me should be hospalised, imprisoned and even killed. He travelled first to Lebanon and then to Turkey, where he lived for two years before begng his journey to Luxembourg word spread about Mano beg gay. “After a few days, I met iends who were gay like me and om Iraq and Syria.